In reference to my other posts, I may have triggered the reaction "let's completely ignore Martin, since he is dangerous, an extremist, nuts".
I aint :) (look at my picture, how much harm can that sweet face do to others?)
I am just a normal guy, which shares his views on life so now and than (altough not really java related, I must admit), when I feel I need to share that.
A little bit about myself :
- Live and let live is my motto.
- I will not harm other "brothers" (brothers = everything that has a soul).
(another term for animal in my vocabulary is "less developed brothers", which proves that humans are way of track, since a lot of times, we can expect more wisdom from animals thatn from people).
- My views on life are my views on life, I will not try to convince you to adopt my view. Just want to share.
- I will talk freely about stuff that other people don't dare speek about (or just didn't think about) and I don't care if I make myself a walking target for criticism that way. We all know what can happen when people judge you for being different.
- I consider myself a world citizen (that's why I mentioned that I would vote on UN elections). A country is based on power, since it feels it needs to defend it's borders. The power however is not positive power, it is possesive and destructive (look at what has happened to Africa, because we all protecting our borders)
- If I am destructive in any way, it is most of the time self destructive behaviour, but I'm working on that. (not talking suicide here!). The bad thing about this part, that it tends to hurt other people too.
Examples of above point :
- I have a money problem (I seem to just throw it away or something).
I simply don't care enough or care too much, which works pretty destructive
- If I forgot something (eg a birthday), I have a hard time contacting that
person again. I am ashamed that I forgot and that is holding me back,
although when I have contact again, it was never a big problem for the other
person, so maybe I have to use that for the benefit of all.
- In addition to the previous point. If I have postponed something I was
planning on doing too long (which involves other people), I tend to ignore
it completely, untill there is no way out and then it's probably too late.
- I tend to focus on 1000 things at the same time, which makes it hard to
really finish up on something, untill there is no way out :)
- Am I nuts or a genius, you probably will never find out :). When in doubt just choose nuts. Saves you a lot of work, determining the genius factor.
I am basically a good guy, with some problems (not in complete control of myself) and you can have a normal conversation with me.
Maybe it's time for a martin FAQ ?
This way you can look up why I said certain things (eg swaring at the government because I pay too much to them, you just go to the martin FAQ and go to the money section and see what might have caused that reaction (he probably cared too much this time).
Or maybe I have to install yet another bugzilla database, which contains bugs of mine, which everyone can add things to (don't be surprised if you get a RESOLVED, WONT FIX in response though)
Posted by mvdb at January 22, 2003 01:00 PM